Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [noun sg] was [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We all knew that Steven was regarded as an eligible bachelor , but we did n't think that marriage was what he was eligible for . |
| 2 | He suspected she would think that kitsch was something you ate in a wine bar . |
| 3 | Richter 's story was unearthed by Mario Mariscotti who wrote a book in Spanish called The Secret of Huemmel Island in which he tells how Argentina , during the Peronist regime , had mistakenly thought that fusion was its for the asking . |
| 4 | He could hardly believe that Zach was his special friend . |
| 5 | You must have known that girl was nothing to do with me — you just wanted revenge . ’ |
| 6 | Where Chartier went further was in asking whether nobility was something which came to a man by virtue of his birth ( and could therefore be inherited ) or whether it was accorded in recognition of merit ? |
| 7 | For quite some time I thought that bunsen was something that the burners burnt . |
| 8 | The French sociologist , whose sentence was more like a paragraph , went on to argue that death was something that we needed to share - it needed to be seen publicly . |
| 9 | Asked if sex was his lifeline , he said : ‘ That 's what Madonna says , and I happen to agree with her . ’ |
| 10 | Lately , he had begun to think that evolution was something that would occur in the soul and , in time , the fripperies of science would be revealed to be dangerous toys . |
| 11 | I never said that land was mine to do as I chose . |